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hostelsExplanation MR MBELO: Mr Chairman, before I went to NY1 I dropped one of the Riot Squad members on, at the corner of NY1 and the street which came behind Dairy Belle Hostels and on the right-hand side, from the eastern side there were some of our policemen also there. ... station. At that time we were monitoring the move by the IFP, the KwaZulu Police, because they were all arresting everybody on the road and in the hostels. On the 10th June 1992 Sergeant Gumede - Khumalo - chased me from Mkhabusa area. He was driving in a white Sentra, and the other squad were ... used its surrogates to massacre township residents. At that stage, I had witnessed the terror being visited upon the communities by people from the hostels, who identified themselves as Inkatha. Inkatha members had also said they want to take over the East Rand, the area I was active in and make ... MR BERGER: You knew that the police and the army patrolled outside the hostels, am I right? ... of this, because we knew that Romeo didn't rob any car. They were framing him as they also framed me, saying that I killed someone at the railway hostels, and I knew that I wouldn't just kill a person. This was something that I wouldn't have done. They were just trying to get me arrested. ... MR NOSENGA: They used to put it in a room, I cannot remember very well. That's where the Indunas would meet and divide the food accordingly. They would divide the food and distribute it into room in the hostels. with the surname of Peens, Shaka and Rooikop, but he specifically mentions in his statement that on the day of the attack he saw Peens coming to the hostels accompanied by his colleague Shaka. He even says that Peens came to the hostel in his own motor vehicle which he describes as a white Opel ... ... of the Casper and using it for political purposes, in doing so they attacked IFP members occupying Kutusa Hostel and another hostel, firing at the hostels and the people living therein. The attack took the form of a ruse to lull the occupants of those two buildings into a false sense of ... this Commission and we see according to your statement that you are one of those who were victims between the factions of the ANC and the IFP in the hostels but before you can give your testimony I'd request you to stand up so that you can take the ... MR BERGER: Did you liaise with other committees of the IFP Youth in other hostels or other townships. Was there any communication between you? ADV MOTATA: The information we have through evidence, is that it was the IFP and ANC related members who were waging war against each other, and in particular the hostels were perceived to be invested with Inkatha members. Do you bear that knowledge as a resident of Thokoza? MS MTANGA: Can you give us some information on the hostel dwellers that you'd been referring to who had been attacking your community, as to which hostel dwellers were these? Where were these hostels found in Diepkloof, and how were these attacks carried out? CHAIRPERSON: These individuals that you killed did not come from the hostels, right? MS NGWANDI: As they were going on they decided to go and join Inkatha, that's why they went to the hostels. MR HATTINGH: This is an incident where limpet mines were placed at certain hostels? MR SIQAZA: When they burnt our houses, went to the single hostels and from there went to Khayelitsha. Even the funeral, it was difficult to bury him. We buried him very early in the morning. He stayed less than a month of the IFP published an order that members of the IFP should resign from unions such as NUMSA and COSATU; members of the unions were harassed in the hostels and attacked on trains by members of the IFP. As a result of this his group met in Germiston and took a decision that they as commuters ... in the police station and then the person who is actually watching or guarding them would actually keep in touch with those people who were in their hostels. That’s how I actually got hold of one and then I bought it from one guy by the surname of Ngobo, that is Bhekumuzi Ngobo who was a resident ... ... to negotiate with the police to try and protect or defend the people, though I can't remember the date, when the people were being attacked in the hostels, there was a rumour that there was an attempt for police who were actually taking the people from Mshayazafe hostel to Polla Park. That day ... ... just forgotten the name. That is the hostel that is further down, nearer to our section. I am not quite sure, I cannot differentiate between the hostels in terms of ... |
